McGregor, twice long-listed for the Booker Prize, offers a forceful portrait of the junkies' tribulations, but characters so single-mindedly devoted to the next fix make tedious literary company.
One, Titian's relaxed yet forceful portrait of a richly garbed Emperor Charles V with a hound, is a highlight of the Prado show: a superb example of a picture that returned to Madrid in the 1650's.
That's because Lear himself is unmatched as a portrait of a forceful, commanding personality under siege to the destructiveness of age.
Yet, as effectively as any civil rights photograph, the portrait was a forceful "weapon of choice," as Mr. Parks would say, in the struggle against racism and segregation.
It shows a bust view of a single figure, modelled on Diego Velázquez's Portrait of Innocent X . Baconapplies forceful, expressive brush strokes, and places the figure with a glass cage like structure, and behind horizontal curtain-like drapery.
These suspended panels, with their forceful swirling strokes of paint, include portraits and evocations of the slave ships of the past.
Written in extraordinarily pared-down prose, it is a depressing but forceful work.Suzanne Raitt offers a sympathetic and intellectually telling portrait of a writer who lived at a time when combining high artistic ambitions with husband and children seemed near-impossible for many women.
For over a decade into Mussolini's authoritarian rule, venerable institutions praised him: the Saturday Evening Post serialized his autobiography and the New York Times printed breathless portraits from its overseas columnists about the promising, forceful Italian leader.
That this portrait is unfairly reductive is Al Kasaba's reasonable and morally forceful argument.
In her Self-Portrait as the Allegory of Painting – on show next month at the Queen's Gallery in Buckingham Palace in an exhibition called Portrait of the Artist – she depicts herself as a muscular, dynamic, forceful character, like the women who hold down Holofernes.
This part of the memoir includes a portrait of the beautiful Mougouch, the polar opposite of Natasha but no less tricky or forceful a matriarch.
